The Morning Brew

Software

• CR_Documentor 2.0.0.0 Released: Now With Sandcastle Preview and Open Source Goodness – Travis Illig announces the availability of CR_Documentor 2.0.0.0 – an IDE plugin which gives you a preview of the XML comment as it would be rendered in the generated documentation.
• SQL Load Test Tool – Peter Provost talks a new tool for Team Systems which generates Team Systems unit tests from SQL Profiler traces allowing you to do database load testing.
• Announcing the .NET Extension Library – Karl Seguin is rethinking his earlier views on Extension Methods, and has released this library of Extension methods that add core functionality to help develop your projects. One suce example is some help for caching. Project is hosted on CodePlex.
• Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal – Omar AL Zabir annouces an update to his DropThings sample portal written in .NET 3.5. Full source code is available on CodePlex.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) – ScottGu gives the low down on the upcoming ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 release – once again, lots of new and exciting things await us.
• Using an ORM? Think Objects! – K. Scott Allen urges developer making the switch to ORM for thair data access to reset their minds and start truly thinking about objects.
• Extension Method Factoid: They don’t override methods (even the override-able ones) – A useful reminder of the limitations of Extension Methods – this kind of behaviour could confuse people if they are not aware of it.
• Obsolete in Isolation – Ayende talks about his approach to brown fields projects, with some interesting discussion in the comments.
• Last In – First Out: Presumed Hostile – Your Application is Out to Get You – Michael Janke talks about things you should consider when thinking about your security model, particularly talking about trust.

Community

• LINQ to XML talk at Vista Squad, London on Wednesday of this week – Mike Taulty is speaking on LINQ to XML at the Vista Squad user group. The Blog entry states that there are only 11 places left so you might need to be quick if you want to attend.
• VBUG Manchester: XML – The missing LINQ with Dave McMahon (28 Aug 2008) – Dave McMahon will be talking about Linq to XML at the August VBUG Manchester meeting

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Software

• F# Compiler – The F# compiler has been updated to version 1.9.4.19

Information

• Understanding Dependency Injection – Mohammad Azam looks at Dependency Injection by implementing a simple container to illustrate the concept
• Object Equality in an Object Model – Dino Esposito looks at implementing your own equality operators and methods
• Lessons That I Learned From Waegis – Keyvan Nayyeri shares a number of things he learnt in launching his Spam checking service Waegis
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache – Sasha Goldshtein starts a series on caching with a look at the standard Read-Write cache.
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache – Sasha continues by looking at Thread-Local caching, involving giving each thread its own copy of the cache, allowing it to access items safely without locking.
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Safe/Unsafe Cache – Sasha finishes off by looking at a Safe/Unsafe cache, having a lock free collection for startup initialised items, and locking collection for runtime items.
• Putting the container to work: Refactoring NServiceBus configuration – Ayende puts some effort into making the container do more of the configuration of NServiceBus
• When to use many-to-one(s) vs. many-to-many with NHibernate – Billy McCafferty looks at one of the key questions in ORM
• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and unit test frameworks – Roy Osherove shares the results of his survey about threading and unit testing.

Community

• Learning NHibernate? Join the email list with 600 other users – Jeffrey Palermo highlights the active community on the NHibernate nhusers Google Group

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Software

• AnkhSVN 2.0 Final Released… – A free Visual Studio integration for Subversion, supporting Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Information

• Identity framework for .Net – René Løhde talks about the recently released Identity Framework from Microsoft
• Security.Cryptography.dll & Security.Cryptography.Debug.dll from the CLR Security Team (with full source) – Greg Duncan highlights a CodePlex project from the CLR Security Team providing additional crypto algorithms.
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code – Matthew Podwysocki posts up a slide deck and some great links about functional programming.
• Back To Basics – Everyone Remember Where We Parked (that memory)! – Scott Hanselman talks about some problems he had with playing sounds in his BabySmash application caused by memory getting cleaned up before the sound had played
• Poll: What threading features do you use? – Roy Osherove wants to know what threading features you use to help with the development of TypeMock Racer.
• Dismiss the ModalPopupExtender with Esc or Enter key – Casey Roach offers a solution to one of my pet hates about web applications – the fact that ‘dialogs’ can’t be dismissed using the escape key.
• Separation of Concerns by example: Part 4 – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on Separation of Concerns – in this part he looks at fixing a defect in the a class, showing how the separation of concerns makes it easier and safer to perform this fix.
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls – Rick Strahl examines the use of the Singleton Pattern for ASP.NET Controls.
• Future Focus: Searching and Navigating to Symbols – Charlie Calvert draws attention to a series of articles about future Visual Studio features, and reminds us that we can comment on these proposals.
• BOSS — The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem – Yahoo open up their search with BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), a published API for their search systems with a number of great sounding features
• Mastering F# Lists – Chris Smith takes a detailed look at lists in F#, examining the common methods with some graphical representations.

Community

• Alt.Net.UK Summer Conference – The Alt.Net UK Conference registration is open – get your place for 12-13th September.
• CodePlex Project Developers Wanted for Research Study – Help out a PhD Student researching usability in open source software – only requirement is that you are a developer with a codeplex project

Humour

• Goodbye, World – It is Friday after all – why not!

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